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An online Gift Registry Service provides registration of information for a gift registrant and allows access to the registry by potential gift giver users. In addition, users can tag items of interest at participating Service Provider (SP) sites and the SP sites will register these items with the Gift Registry Service on the user's behalf. It further provides a streamlined checkout process for purchasing these gift items with the registered SP sites (e.g. World Wide Web sites) over a distributed public network. Users and Service Providers (SP) initially register with the Gift Registry Service and are provided additional functionality. For users, a reminder service is provided to notify individuals automatically upon the trigger of certain events, such as important dates or product sales from online merchants. In addition, there are various occasion planning services available such as distribution lists, discussion groups, and other related resources for multiple events including weddings, baby showers, etc. These other resources include sending out announcements, reserving halls, and contracting services of related businesses for the occasion. A distinct advantage of this system is that users can perform all the planning for the event online in the comfort of their home or office. Service Providers on the other hand, can register system notification messages to be triggered on pre-determined events. In addition, Service Providers can obtain marketing information to tailor their products and services.

A system and method is provided for age verification and content filtering (AV / CF) on a wireless telecommunications system capable of providing enhanced products such as Internet, WAP, messaging, games, video, music, applications, etc. A profile controls content that is accessible by a user depending upon the user's age or restrictions placed on accessible content in accordance with content categories. Rating information is obtained from content providers and mapped to content categories or content is rated dynamically. User's requests for access may be recorded whether access is provided or denied and used to provide reports including reports to account holders responsible for the user's account. In some instances, attempts to access banned information may be reported to law enforcement officials.

A system and method is provided for age verification and content filtering (AV / CF) on a wireless telecommunications system capable of providing enhanced products such as Internet, WAP, messaging, games, video, music, applications, etc. A profile controls content that is accessible by a user depending upon the user's age or restrictions placed on accessible content in accordance with content categories. Rating information is obtained from content providers and mapped to content categories or content is rated dynamically. User's requests for access may be recorded whether access is provided or denied and used to provide reports including reports to account holders responsible for the user's account. In some instances, attempts to access banned information may be reported to law enforcement officials.

The present invention seeks to improve upon existing energy-generation technologies by providing methods, systems, and devices for converting mechanical power into electrical power. More specifically, the present invention relates to fluid-powered generators and methods, systems, and devices for generating power by way of such fluid-powered generators. The present invention includes devices for generating energy comprising fluid turbine generators having variable inlet(s), wherein the fluid velocity, volume, and / or mass of fluid collected by the inlet can be varied to control turbine speed to provide a reasonably steady, continuous, and / or sufficient source of energy over a wide range of conditions presented by natural fluid resources.

An object of the present invention is to provide a coordinate input device of touch-type capable of giving an electric signal to a transducer, even if a piezoelectric vibrator having electrodes on both surfaces thereof is employed.A device according to the present invention comprises: acoustic wave transducers (piezoelectric vibrators) 3a and 4a, each functioning for oscillating a bulk wave (a first wave) toward a top surface 2 of a substrate 1; a planar wiring 7 formed on a back surface of the substrate 1 by the method such as transfer printing with conductive paste, for supplying said piezoelectric vibrator with electric power; a connecting device 8 for connecting said planar wiring with an electrode of each of said acoustic wave transducers 3a and 4a; diffractive acoustic wave mode couplers 9a–10b, each functioning for converting said bulk wave into a surface acoustic wave (a second wave) and vice versa; and a means for detecting a scatter in the surface acoustic wave (the second wave) on the top surface of said substrate. Employing the combination of the planar wiring and the connecting device can resolve the problem of fragility associated with a cable wiring even in the piezoelectric vibrator having the electrodes on both surfaces thereof.

A coordinate input device of touch-type capable of giving an electric signal to a transducer, even if said transducer is disposed on a back surface of a substrate. The device contains acoustic wave transducers (piezoelectric vibrators), each functioning for oscillating a bulk wave (a first wave) toward a top surface of a substrate; a planar wiring formed on a back surface of the substrate by, e.g., transfer printing with conductive paste, for supplying the piezoelectric vibrator with electric power; diffractive acoustic wave mode couplers, each functioning for converting said bulk wave into a surface acoustic wave (a second wave) and vice versa; and a detector to detect scatter in the surface acoustic wave on the top surface of the substrate. Employing the planar wiring allows the wiring to be disposed even on the back surface of the substrate and also it may resolve the problem of fragility associated with a cable wiring.

A structural assembly for a vehicle includes a structural member extending longitudinally. The structural assembly also includes an insert disposed within and extending longitudinally along at least a portion of the structural member and having at least one corrugation to act as a crush initiator during an axial impact on the structural assembly.

A media-on-demand (MOD) portal application allows users to view and access from a single display interface MOD content provided by multiple media providers, such as vendors and service providers. The MOD portal application may provide grid display screens showing program listings of available media content. The grids may include rows and columns, where each row and each column includes program listings associated with a particular category. In one illustrative grid, each row includes programming from a single media vendor and each column includes programming of a particular genre. A media guidance application is also provided which automatically determines if a user does not watch an MOD program the user has ordered. The media guidance application may automatically make the unwatched program available to the user at a later time, for example by automatically recording the program or by allowing the user to access the program at the later time.

The present invention is process of preparing 3-hydroxy propionate and 1, 3-propylene glycol with epoxide as material. The present invention prepares 3-hydroxy propionate with epoxide, CO and alcohol under the action of cobalt catalyst and co-catalyst, and prepares 1, 3-propylene glycol under the action of 3-hydroxy propionate hydrogenating catalyst. The present invention has the advantages of simple reaction apparatus, simple operation, mild reaction condition, high catalyst activity, no environmental pollution, low production cost, etc.

A powder particle shaping device includes a closed cavity capable of changing between multiple shapes as an external pressure changes, and the closed cavity compresses and moves powder particles with which the closed cavity is filled full while the shape changes. A powder particle shaping method is further provided, which includes a. filling a cavity full with powder particles to be shaped; and b. applying a varying external pressure to make the cavity change repeatedly between multiple shapes, thereby making the powder particles under compression move and be subject to friction, where the cavity is kept in a closed state during an effective processing process. The shaping device and method have highly controllable shaping processing intensity of powder particles and stable processing strength, and thus are applicable to shaping and pulverization of various powder particles, and also applicable to pulverization and further shaping processing of dispersed agglomerates.

Contoured helical solid polycrystalline PCD and PCBN superabrasive segments are provided for attachment to cutting tool substrates such as twist drill tips, reamers, burrs and endmills. Segments are provided in near to net shape for attachment to a tool substrate thereby requiring reduced finishing steps and providing increased tailorability of grade and quality of final polycrystalline segments. Cutting tools comprising cutting tool substrates having attached thereto a contoured helical solid polycrystalline PCD and PCBN superabrasive segments are also disclosed.

The present invention represents an inventory management and process control system that enables suppliers, distributors, retailers and wholesalers to share their physical inventories with each other. It also provides facilities for publishing that data to retailers' web sites while providing innovative pricing and incentive schemes.

A structural assembly for a vehicle includes a structural member extending longitudinally. The structural assembly also includes an insert disposed within and extending longitudinally along at least a portion of the structural member and having at least one corrugation to act as a crush initiator during an axial impact on the structural assembly.

A multi-mode, bi-directional cascade heat pump system, according to some examples, includes at least two chillers each being part of a unidirectional refrigerant circuit. The system includes heat exchangers each of which are dedicated to operate as just a condenser or as just an evaporator, regardless of the system's operating mode. In some modes, a secondary fluid transfers heat between the condenser of one chiller and the evaporator of another chiller before the fluid returns to a secondary fluid source such as, for example, a geothermal borefield or a conventional water source. In some embodiments, fluid is withdrawn from a borefield by way of a pump having a speed that varies to maintain a desired fluid temperature and / or a desired heat transfer rate at the borefield. The heat pump system includes means for minimizing flow through the borefield and for minimizing unnecessary mixing of relatively high and low temperature fluid.

The invention relates to a preparation technology of a ternary laminar MAX phase ceramic coating layer, and in particular, provides a method for efficiently preparing a ceramic coating layer with a ternary laminar MAX phase as a main phase at low temperature by a physical vapor deposition technology. M, A and X element powders with a certain mol ratio or electrically conducted binary and ternary compound powders are uniformly mixed and pressed to produce a cathode target at a certain temperature; the physical vapor deposition (multi-arc ion plating or magnetron sputtering) is adopted under optimized process conditions; and then, the crystallization heat treatment is adopted, thereby realizing the preparation of the ceramic coating layer with the MAX phase as the main phase by a two-step method. The method has the characteristics of deposition at room temperature, easy adjustment of target components, simple process, high deposition efficiency and low cost, has obvious advantages in the aspect of preparing the MAX phase coating layer, can solve the problems of high cost and complicated process in traditional preparation of the MAX phase coating layer, and promotes the large-scale industrial production of the MAX phase coating layer.

An electro-acupuncture device for controlling nausea. The device includes a base unit which is includes a wrist-watch like housing, circuitry for generating electro-acupuncture stimulus disposed within the housing, and a strap for securing the housing to the wrist. The base unit has a standardized construction. The device also includes a releasably attachable electrode assembly. The electrode assembly attaches to the base unit of the device. The electrode assembly includes a pair of electrodes and connectors for connecting the electrodes to the circuitry of the base unit. The output of the device is dependent upon the circuitry of the electrode assembly. Thus various electrode assemblies can be made. The circuitry of the base unit modifies the output of the device depending upon which electrode assembly is attached to the base unit.

The invention discloses a tri-modal serial brain-computer interface method based on multi-information fusion. The method includes the steps: stimulating a testee by the aid of two visual stimulus paradigms; extracting electroencephalogram data of the testee; setting relevant parameters, reading the electroencephalogram data, preprocessing the electroencephalogram data, extracting characteristics, recognizing modes and acquiring final mode recognition results; converting the final mode recognition results into control instructions, and fulfilling specific tasks by executing the control instructions. A mixed-paradigm brain-computer interface introduces electrophysiology control signals except for electroencephalogram signals, and application environments and objects of the brain-computer interface are expanded to some extent. The tri-modal serial brain-computer interface method has the advantages of high stability, more options, wide application range and the like, and a foundation is laid for the brain-computer interface to step into a wide-range time application stage as soon as possible. The method can be used for fields such as electronic entertainment and industrial control, a perfect brain-computer interface system can be obtained, and the method is expected to obtain considerable social benefits and economic benefits.

The invention relates to a high-cycle fatigue and low-intensity impact coupled damage calculation method based on a nominal stress method. The method comprises the following steps of: 1, determining the initial fatigue limit of a product, and calculating the fatigue life corresponding to single step of load under the action of fatigue load by utilizing the Baskin formula; 2, determining whether random impact or fixed impact exists according the frequency of impact; 3, calculating the accumulated fatigue damage after first 1000 times of impact according to the damage calculation method of the accumulated fatigue damage rule selected in the step 1; 4, calculating the accumulated fatigue damage after more than 1000 times of impact and the total accumulated damage value of the product at the t moment; 5, calculating the probability of no fatigue failure and the probability of random impact failure respectively, thereby finally obtaining the reliability of the product. The method provided by the invention can be used for evaluating the fatigue life and reliability of the product under the complex environment, and then discussing the impact and accumulated fatigue damage models in different cases, and is wide in selection area and application space, simple and convenient in analysis and calculation process and strong in engineering practicability.

A polymerizable liquid crystal compound shown by the following formula (I), a polymerizable liquid crystal composition that includes the polymerizable liquid crystal compound and a chiral compound polymerizable with the polymerizable liquid crystal compound, a liquid crystalline polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable liquid crystal compound or the polymerizable liquid crystal composition, and an optical anisotropic article that includes the liquid crystalline polymer. The polymerizable liquid crystal compound shows a liquid crystal phase over a wider temperature range, is chemically stable, can be inexpensively produced, and has a wide selective reflection wavelength band Δλ (i.e., a large value Δn). The polymerizable liquid crystal composition includes the polymerizable liquid crystal compound, the liquid crystalline polymer is obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable liquid crystal compound or the polymerizable liquid crystal composition, and the optical anisotropic article includes the liquid crystalline polymer.wherein Y1 to Y6 represent —O—, —O—C(═O)—, —C(═O)—O—, or the like, G1 and G2 represent divalent aliphatic groups having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, Z1 and Z2 represent an alkenyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms or the like, A1 and A2 represent divalent organic groups A having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, X1 to X8 represent a hydrogen atom or the like, and a and b represent 0 or 1.

The invention discloses a two-dimensional nitrogen-doped hierarchical pore carbon nano-sheet as well as a preparation method and application thereof to a lithium / sulfur battery. The method takes zinc salt and a water-soluble nitrogen-containing organic ligand as raw materials and two-dimensional lamellar MOF is synthesized in a water solution in one step; the two-dimensional nitrogen-doped hierarchical pore carbon nano-sheet is obtained through processes including carbonization, activation and the like. The carbon nano-sheet disclosed by the invention has micro-pores and also has micropores and macropores; the specific surface area is 200m<2>g / l to 5000m<2>g / l and the pore volume is 0.1cm<3>g / l to 4.5cm<3>g / l; the carbon nano-sheet disclosed by the invention is used as a positive electrode material of the lithium / sulfur battery, the sulfur fixing effect is obvious and the electron and ion conductivity is good, so that the obtained battery has very good circulating performance and rate performance; the first-turn discharge capacity at 0.2C can reach 1226mAh / g and the capacity rentention rate reaches 74.1 percent after 50 times of circulation. The preparation process is simple and has energy-saving and environment-friendly effects; large-scale preparation is easy to realize.

The invention discloses a high-precision deflection electric type pressure sensor based on a metal elastic element. The sensor comprises the metal elastic element for measuring mechanical vibration generated by micro pressure, a deflection electric dielectric film is pasted on the top of the metal elastic element, an insulation layer is arranged on the periphery of the metal elastic element, an upper metal electrode and a lower metal electrode are arranged on the upper surface and the lower surface of the deflection electric dielectric film respectively, the upper metal electrode and the lower metal electrode of the deflection electric dielectric film are connected with two output wires for measuring charge signals respectively, a pressure channel which is used for exerting pressure is formed below the metal elastic element, the deflection electric dielectric film, the upper metal electrode and the lower metal electrode are all arranged in an outer shell, and one end of each of two wires is led out from the outer shell. According to the sensor, the pressure on the film is measured through the linear relation between the exertion pressure and the mechanical deformation strain gradient of the metal elastic element, and the pressure measuring can be accurately and easily achieved.

The invention discloses a method for enhancing the taste of rice noodles by taking fresh rice as raw material. The method adopts a common production process of the rice noodles and comprises the following steps: soaking and smashing, then adding dietary fiber and rice protein in a certain ratio into the process of stirring, and adjusting water content; then performing processes of twin-screw extrusion, aging 1, steaming again, aging 2, washing and the like; finally, drying, cutting, sterilizing and packaging to obtain the rice noodles. In the rice noodles prepared by the method, the selection requirements of the raw materials are greatly reduced; various fresh early indica rice, late indica rice, mixed rice of early indica rice and late indica rice and broken rice are applicable. The rice noodles prepared by the method are less in pulp output amount and low in rice bar broken rate; meanwhile, the rice noodles have porous structures which are easily tasted and strong in reconstitution properties. In addition, the added dietary fiber and rice protein are capable of well making up the defect of relatively single nutrition of original rice noodles, so that the requirements of consumers on mouth feel, flavor and nutrition are met.

The invention concerns a method for transmitting a biorthogonal multicarrier signal BFDM / OM, using a transmultiplexer structure providing: a modulating step, using a synthesis filter bank (11), having two 2M parallel branches, M≧2, each supplied by source data, and comprising an expander of order M and filtering means; a demodulating step, using an analysis filter bank (12), having two 2M parallel branches, each comprising a decimation unit of order M and filtering means, and delivering received data representing said source data; said filtering means being derived from a predetermined prototype modulating function.

Provided are a separator-integrated electrode and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery with a reduced risk of a short circuit between electrodes due to precipitation of metallic lithium on a surface of an electrode mixture layer. A positive electrode (12) configured as a separator-integrated electrode includes a positive current collector (22), a positive active material layer (24) formed on a surface thereof, a first porous layer (26) formed on a surface of the positive active material layer (24) and containing inorganic particles, and a second porous layer (28) formed on a surface of the first porous layer (26) and made of resin fibers.

A circulation pipe for a coolant is connected to a fuel cell. A pump and a heat exchanger are connected to the circulation pipe. A bypass pipe is connected in parallel with the pump. An ion exchanger is connected to the bypass pipe. An electronic cooling device is connected to the bypass pipe on an upstream side of the ion exchanger. The coolant, which is supplied to the ion exchanger, is cooled by the electronic cooling device to a predetermined temperature, so that the ion-exchange resins are prevented from being abnormally heated by the coolant.

The present invention relates to a separation device notably for a flow-force fractionation of suspended substances in a liquid carrier, said separation device comprising a separation channel and a counter-channel. The object of the present invention is mainly the separation of living cells, preferably of human origin, in particular cells which are found in body fluids.